HONDURAS: The Polite Revolution

In the cobblestone capital of Tegucigalpa
this week, military officers shouldered aside Supreme Chief of State
Julio Lozano Diaz. The framed election, which Lozano staged to
transform himself into a legal President (TIME, Oct. 22), proved too
raw for Honduras' younger, U.S.-trained officers to choke down. All
last week Colonel Hector Caraccioli, 34, a U.S.-trained pilot who
commands the air force, and Major Roberto Galvez, 31, an engineering
officer who studied at Louisiana State University, talked it over with
aging (71) Don Julio. Then, lining up support from General Roque J.
Rodriguez, 55, commander of the country's military academy and...